| лишь бы не было войны | as long as there is no war (КМК, наиболее распространённый вариант передачи этого русского выражения на английском языке.: "There's a little Russian poem," said Pyotr Kolesnikov, a factory worker with a wife and two small children: `A star fell down from heaven, into my darling's trousers, let it burn there, as long as there is no war.' I think you'll find that is the attitude of most Russians." (The Irish Times, Tue, Jan 28, 1997) • "People want to forget the war, they don’t want to speak of it, or think about it. They are ready to live in fear of the authorities in the republic, just as long as there is no war." (From 'War-weary Chechens "are ready to live in fear"', Swissinfo.ch, May 14, 2011) • “As long as there is no war” is a popular saying from the Soviet times. The generation that had experienced the Second World War was indeed ready to suffer any hardships so that the horrors of the 1940s would not be repeated. (From "The Soviet Union versus the EuroMaidan", New Eastern Europe, No 2(XI)/2014) • Few Tajiks believed that the government could solve the country’s dire social and economic problems (…) These claims resonated with the international community – which supported Rahmon’s version of the peace process and largely turned a blind eye to the regime’s human rights abuses – and with much of the population, in which the popular trope – ‘as long as there is no war’ – became a justification for poor governance. (From "Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia") Alexander Oshis) |
